08 October 2014 1:33 PM

Your Home in Their Hands - Some of the mistakes the designers made

I hope many of you if not all tuned into my new show on BBC1 Your Home In Their Hands, which sees the last episode for now this Thursday 8pm, until it returns in the New Year.

Each week we meet two home-owners stuck in style stalemate, and for whatever reason cannot agree on the interiors or get their homes finished. They have decided they need help and have chosen to take the risk and allow two amateur designers who have only ever designed their own homes in to hopefully solve their design dilemmas!

Last week we saw an “interesting” take on a hallway, where the home-owner wanted something warm and inviting and described it as a hallway with a “hug”. The designer went slightly wild on this, and his influence seemed to stem from bringing the outside in, but in a much more radical way than I would.

There are ways of bringing the outside in, subtly, with texture and colour. See this living room below, which is by the sea. It has natural woods, mother of pearl accessories, bone bowls, ivory colours to keep it calm and natural feeling and not to fight with the beautiful view outside.

Also a large hallway which is still inviting despite the size and volume and has warmth.

There was a very nicely executed dining room in the second home last week. Although I thought that both the 2 designers had talent, the dining room was dominated by one of the amateur designers as oppose to them working together, which they were supposed to do as this was their joint room. Despite this it was glamorous, yet contemporary with “wow” factor chandeliers, and it really did transform an unused, dreary room into something very special for the home-owners.

If you have a separate dining room in your home, I recommend that you give it a “wow’ factor and that you really dress it up. It is deemed as a more formal type of room, where as a family room is a more relaxed and chilled out area, this should be elegant for entertaining guests.

See this open plan dining room below, although not a separate room, it is still grand and stylish even in a contemporary setting.

Watch Your Home in Their Hands on the 9th of October on BBC One at 8pm, or you can catch up on the BBC iPlayer.

This is the funniest show I have seen all year. A much preferred show from the BBC, less boring than the usual tat they show. My wife was angry with me for watching but I didnt care I just watched it anyway, you are pretty special on it!